Tuesday, June 7, 2022
Nearly 30 years of milestones in the lives of two pals who meet in middle school are centerstage in Jeffrey Lo’s heartfelt, charming comedy-drama Waiting for Next, finally getting its worl…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:59AMThursday, June 2, 2022
After a winter 2022 postponement due to COVID-era issues, Georgia Ensemble Theatre in Roswell, GA, will give Alabama Story — the six-actor, one-set drama about an embattled librarian in th…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 11:59AMSunday, May 1, 2022
Kenneth Jones’ six-actor comedy Hollywood, Nebraska — the story of two actresses returning to their dying hometown — will get at least three “rolling world premiere” productions by…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:34PMFriday, April 22, 2022
I just read a rueful, charming, tough new play called Off Peak, about former lovers meeting on a train, and I knew immediately that I wanted to throw some questions at playwright Brenda With…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 05:27PMThursday, April 21, 2022
Sean Blake, Judy Fitzgerald and Jan Lucas will be the trio of Midwestern snowbirds unpacking family secrets in a May 14 developmental staged reading of Kenneth Jones’ comedy-drama Two Henr…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:50PMSunday, March 20, 2022
“Ah, look at all the lonely people,” a line from Lennon and McCartney’s “Eleanor Rigby,” was on my mind when I read Stephen Kaplan’s quirky, sadness-tinged, four-actor comedy Tra…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 05:45PMMonday, February 14, 2022
When I saw a New York City reading of a three-character pop musical called Writing Kevin Taylor a few years ago, I was certain this would be the next big little hit in regional theaters — …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 12:17PMSunday, January 30, 2022
Kenneth Jones’ six-actor comedy Hollywood, Nebraska is the latest title in Music Theatre of Connecticut’s New Voices series, a non-musical pilot program that gives a spotlight to five …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 11:08PMThursday, January 6, 2022
Two Henrys, a three-character comedy-drama set at the dawn of marriage equality and the dusk of the worst days of the AIDS epidemic, will be explored in a spring staged reading as part of Ac…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 11:19PMSaturday, December 18, 2021
Steppenwolf Theatre ensemble member Ora Jones will create the role of Therese, the town doctor who sounds the alarm over a public health crisis, in the 2022 world premiere of Jeff Talbott’…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 03:34PMWednesday, December 1, 2021
Actress Greta Lambert, one of the great things to happen to American regional theater, is finally getting a chance to perform her one-person adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas C…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 03:23PMFriday, November 26, 2021
Broadway musical star Lisa Howard, whose powerful voice effortlessly glides from brassy to warm to everything in between, is in a holiday mood at the end of 2021. The actress beloved for rol…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:36PMThursday, November 11, 2021
Actors Theatre of Indiana welcomes Pulitzer Prize finalist Lee Blessing for a Nov. 13 reading of his new pandemic-era play, The Family Line, the second title in ATI’s 2021-22 Lab Series. B…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 11:50PMThursday, November 4, 2021
The largely anonymous Chinese immigrants who built the American transcontinental railroad in the 19th century finally get a collective voice — and it sings! — in the world premiere of Ja…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 02:52PMSaturday, October 16, 2021
Ellen Simon, daughter of the late great playwright Neil Simon, will finally see the world premiere of her play, Ass, starting Oct. 22 in a production by Pioneer Theatre Company. The drama ab…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:55PMThursday, October 14, 2021
The famously hawk-nosed actress Margaret Hamilton — best known as The Wicked Witch in the film “The Wizard of Oz,” but employed for decades as a treasured character actress — gets a …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 08:01PMThursday, October 7, 2021
Music Theatre of Connecticut launches New Voices — a non-musical pilot program that gives a spotlight to five contemporary plays by living authors in staged readings — Oct. 11 with Jeff …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 03:07PMWednesday, October 6, 2021
A troubled war veteran shakes the lives of residents of a South Side Chicago apartment building in Joshua Allen’s The October Storm, getting its world premiere Oct. 8-23 by Hudson Stage Co…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 11:47AMThursday, September 30, 2021
Georgia Ensemble Theatre in Roswell, GA, will give Alabama Story — the six-actor, one-set drama about an embattled librarian in the Deep South — its state premiere as part of the residen…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 04:23PMMonday, September 20, 2021
Provenance, a new play set in and around a Hoosier history museum, gets a staged reading Sept. 25 as the first title in Actors Theatre of Indiana’s 2021-22 Lab Series devoted to developing…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 11:55PMThursday, August 26, 2021
Midwest actor and playwright Adam Tran conjures the conquering mood of the Mongol Empire’s Genghis Khan in a new one-man show, Mongrel, getting an open-air world-premiere staging by Know T…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 05:05PMSunday, June 13, 2021
The First Annual Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival welcomes playwrights, other theater practitioners, students and theatergoers from around country to shine a spotlight on new works …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 09:53PMMonday, May 31, 2021
New plays by Mark St. Germain and Anne Undeland will enliven Great Barrington Public Theater’s summer 2021 season in the Berkshires in Massachusetts. Six weeks of performances — includin…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 02:56PMWednesday, March 31, 2021
A few years ago when a play of mine was being produced by Florida Studio Theatre, a twentysomething intern named Dave Osmundsen picked me up at the airport and we got to chatting about plays…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 11:27PMThursday, February 18, 2021
Two Henrys, Kenneth Jones’ three-character humor-laced drama about Wisconsin snowbirds dealing with grief, guilt, prejudice and perceptions in Florida, is among titles featured in PlayWork…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 02:36PMMonday, January 18, 2021
Alabama Story, the six-actor/one-set social justice drama by Kenneth Jones, will make its professional streaming debut Jan. 18-Feb. 14, 2021, when Actors Theatre of Indiana offers an on-dem…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 02:37PMSunday, November 29, 2020
Simply put, Greta Lambert is one of the great things to happen to regional theater. If you don’t know her work, you’re in luck: The veteran Alabama actress who has spent 35 years working…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 05:29PMFriday, September 25, 2020
Oak Ridge Playhouse, the 77-year-old civic theater in eastern Tennessee, got more creative than usual for the year of COVID 19. Executive artistic director Reggie Law conceived a production …
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 03:17PMFriday, August 28, 2020
Alabama Story, the six-actor drama cited by The Washington Post for its “national relevance” — trafficking in racial tensions, bullying politicians, persecuted but persistent women, Ci…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 07:20PMTuesday, June 16, 2020
Cape May Stage in New Jersey will stream a virtual reading of Kenneth Jones’ three-actor, one-set play Two Henrys live on Facebook 7 PM June 18 in celebration of Pride Month as part of the…
SOURCE: By Kenneth Jones at 01:37PMCape May Stage in New Jersey will stream a virtual reading of Kenneth Jones’ three-actor, one-set play Two Henrys live on Facebook 7 PM June 18 in celebration of Pride Month as part of the…
SOURCE: bykennethjones.com at 01:37PM 
